Of course she might have fantasised the identification at a later date, when Austen's fame was growing, or simply been mistaken about it, but that would mean that the Austens' gift in 1817 was a portrait of a subject entirely unknown to the Harding-Newmans, a pretty odd and unsatisfactory wedding-present.
If I feel hungry or see my friend, I cannot be mistaken about who the subject of that experience is, even if I can be mistaken about it being hunger (perhaps it's really thirst), or about it being my friend (perhaps it's his twin), or even about whether I am actually seeing him (I may be hallucinating).
Yet you distinguish this merely subjective connection from the objective connection between sides of the house, which is objective because the sides of the house necessarily belong together "in the object," because this connection holds for everyone universally, and because it is possible to be mistaken about it.
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But it is possible that I am mistaken about my bad behavior; maybe it never really happened.
It now says it had been mistaken about needing to revoke the housing loans.
By his own argument, however, Socrates could not blame the jury, for it was mistaken about what was truly in the interest of the city (cf. Theaetetus 177d-e) and thus required instruction.
Later that day, the post says, "Jonathan would only say that he had been mistaken about his find and that it turned out only to be a stick, though he couldn't say this without a grin on his face".
After all, you do not want your physician prescribing an inappropriate antibiotic simply because he/she was mistaken about the causative agent—"Oh, was it Mycobacterium?
Alavian is mistaken about that.
But I had been mistaken about Melchor.
